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                        <strong><font class="pageHead" align="justify">Editorial Message - January 1, 2009</font></strong></td>
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                                        Natural Product Communications (NPC) provides a major venue for rapid publication of high quality natural products research, including organic, medicinal, pharmaceutical, bioorganic, analytical, theoretical, biotechnological and chemotaxonomic aspects. We are delighted that NPC has made such a good start and has attracted the attention of scientists worldwide, as indicated by submissions and the web statistics. It is worthy of mention that despite the fact that NPC only started in 2006, it has become a SCI cited journal with an impact factor in 2007 of 0.435 (70 articles out of 161 published in 2006 were cited in that year). This has only been possible due to the large number of high quality submissions and the tremendous efforts of the reviewers. We are very grateful to all the authors who have submitted such high quality work to the journal and the reviewers for dealing with the manuscripts so quickly. <br /><br />
                                        
                                        During 2008 we had six thematic issues on ‘Phytochemical Analysis’, ‘Terpenoids’, ‘Recent Results in Essential Oil and Aroma Compound Research’, ‘Production of Secondary Metabolites in Relation to Various Aspects of Chemodiversity’, and ‘ Russian Studies on Natural Products’, and honorarium issues to commemorate the birthdays of six internationally renowned natural product researchers, Professors Peter G. Waterman, Pedro Joseph-Nathan, Gerhard Buchbauer, George R. Waller, Wilfred R. Chan, and Franco F. Vincieri. We thank all those authors who contributed papers for these issues and the reviewers, all of whom responded to a short and challenging timetable. We are pleased to mention that NPC will be proud to recognize other eminent scientists by dedicating an issue in their honour, and suggestions would be welcomed.  <br /><br />
                                        
                                        We are committed to placing this journal at the forefront for the dissemination of novel and exciting natural products research. We should like to remind all prospective authors that NPC does not have a page restriction, although we strongly encourage them to present their results in an even number of pages. Technical details of lesser priority should preferably be included in ‘supporting information’ rather than in the main text. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to receiving feedback. <br /><br />
                                        
                                        For the information of our authors and readers, we have to announce some changes to the Editorial Board and the Editorial Board of Advisors for 2009. Professor Gerald Blunden, School of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK, has been an editor from the time of inception of the journal. Due to his retirement, he has expressed a wish to step down from his editorial role. His high level of commitment and expertise will be missed, and the editors and publisher thank him for his many valuable contributions to the journal. Leaving the Editorial Board of Advisors are Professors Carlos Cerda-Garcia-Rojas, Biswanath Das, Michael Heinrich, William Reynolds, Ricardo Riguera, Hermann Stuppner, and Apichart Suksamrarn. We thank all of them for their support. We are, however, pleased to report that as of January 2009, Professor David E. Thurston, School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK, will be joining the Editorial Board, bringing considerable expertise and experience, particularly in areas associated with cancer, Professor Gerald Blunden will become an Honorary Editor and Professors Lee Banting, Berhanu Abegaz, Anna R. Bilia, Duvvuru Gunasekar and Leopold Jirovetz will be joining the Editorial Advisory Board. We welcome them all and look forward to working with them. <br /><br />
                                        
                                        Dr Pawan K. Agrawal <br />
                                        Professor Gerald Blunden <br />
                                        Professor Alessandra Braca <br />
                                        Professor Dean Guo <br />
                                        Professor J. Alberto Marco <br />
                                        Professor Yoshihiro Mimaki <br />
                                        Professor Stephen G. Pyne <br />
                                        Professor Manfred G. Reinecke <br />
                                        Professor William N. Setzer<br />
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